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BOSTON, May 22, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Rhythm announced today the results of a Phase 1b clinical trial of RM-131, the company's novel ghrelin agonist for the treatment of diabetic gastroparesis. The trial demonstrated that RM-131 greatly accelerates gastric emptying in patients with diabetic gastroparesis. The findings were presented at the Digestive Disease Week 2012 conference in San Diego.
The Phase 1b clinical trial was a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, single-dose crossover study in 10 patients with type 2 diabetes, a history and symptoms of diabetic gastroparesis, and documentation of delayed gastric emptying. The primary objective of the study was to evaluate the pharmacodynamic profile of RM-131 administered as a single dose (100 mcg) to patients with diabetic gastroparesis. The trial also assessed safety and tolerability.
In the poster, "Randomized, Placebo-Controlled, Single-Dose, Crossover Study of the Effects of RM-131 in Type 2 Diabetics with Documented Delayed Gastric Emptying," Andrea Shin, M.D., a Mayo Clinic gastroenterology Fellow and study author, presented the following clinical data:
RM-131 is effective in accelerating gastric emptying in patients with type 2 diabetes and delayed gastric emptying.
Gastric emptying time was reduced by 66%.
The greatest improvement was observed in patients with the most abnormal gastric emptying.
RM-131 was generally well tolerated, with no serious adverse events
RM-131 was successfully designed to retain the pharmacodynamic properties of human ghrelin at lower and less frequent doses.
"We want to thank the Mayo Clinic for running this excellent clinical study," said Keith Gottesdiener, MD, CEO of Rhythm. "There is a great need for new treatments for diabetic gastroparesis, which afflicts patients with debilitating symptoms and causes frequent hospitalizations. These RM-131 results are encouraging and serve as the foundation for further clinical trials with RM-131 for the treatment of gastroparesis and other GI functional disorders."
About RM-131
RM-131 is a small-peptide analog of ghrelin, a hormone produced in the stomach that stimulates gastrointestinal activity. Derived from the natural ghrelin sequence, RM-131 has been optimized to stimulate gastrointestinal motility, with greater potency, and enhanced stability and pharmacokinetics.
About Gastroparesis
Gastroparesis affects a significant number of the 24 million diabetics in the U.S., with a prevalence of delayed gastric emptying of up to 30% among type 1 and type 2 diabetics. Gastroparesis symptoms include chronic nausea, vomiting, malnutrition, and results in a significant rate of hospitalization. This condition also often undermines measures to manage hyperglycemia.
About Rhythm (www.rhythmtx.com)
Rhythm is a biotechnology company developing peptide therapeutics that address unmet needs in metabolic diseases. Rhythm is developing the ghrelin peptide agonist, RM-131, for the treatment of diabetic gastroparesis and other GI functional disorders, and the MC4R peptide agonist, RM-493, for obesity and diabetes. Rhythm investors include MPM Capital, New Enterprise Associates, and Third Rock Ventures. The company is based in Boston, Massachusetts.
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- Most closed-end funds offer a discount. You can invest in a closed-end fund with a share price lower than the net asset value.
- If your closed-end fund is actively managed to outperform a benchmark index, this could mean higher fees and more taxes.
- Compare the advantages and disadvantages of closed-end funds with exchange-traded funds (ETFs).
Related How-Tos
There are two types of mutual funds — open-end funds and closed-end funds. Imagine they're twins who share the same DNA but go through life doing things very differently.
Both of these funds sell shares to investors and use the money invested to buy securities that match their investment missions. But that's where the similarities end.
When people say "mutual funds" they're usually referring to open-end funds. Open-end funds can sell an unlimited number of shares to investors. The price per share — also known as the net asset value (NAV) — is calculated by dividing the market value of the fund's assets by the number of shares held by investors.
If a fund has net assets of $100 million and there are 5 million fund shares in the hands of investors, the fund's share price would be $20. That's why open-end mutual funds trade only at the end of each day, when trading stops and the final price can be calculated.
Most people own the open-end variety in their retirement and taxable accounts.
Now let's look at the lesser-known twin, closed-end funds. These funds issue a set number of shares at the fund's origin that trade on the stock exchange throughout the day. The value of these shares is based on demand. If lots of investors buy shares, the price goes up. If investors dump them, the price goes down.
The same is true for closed-end funds. If you invest in a closed-end fund with a share price that's lower than its NAV, congratulations, you're getting a discount. If the gap between that fund's share price and its NAV narrows after you invest, you'll receive a bonus when you sell shares. Just as if the price of that bag of coins went up when you sold it.
But don't get overly concerned with these figures. Most closed-end funds offer a discount. The key is knowing how much of a discount they're offering and whether you think the fund will perform well over time. If it does, and the discount shrinks after you've purchased shares, then you earn a profit.
Like open-end funds, closed-end funds come in dozens of types ranging from U.S. stock and bond funds to funds that invest in a singe country or region. But don't confuse a closed-end fund with a "closed fund." A closed fund is an open-end fund that no longer accepts new investors.
Closed-end funds tend to be actively managed — meaning the fund's manager buys and sells securities in an effort to outperform the fund's benchmark index, such as the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Watch out: This buying and selling could result in higher fees and increased taxes, if you hold the fund in a taxable account.
Should You Invest in a Closed-End Fund?
In recent years, closed-end funds have fallen out of favor with average investors. That's due largely to the rise in popularity of open-end funds and exchange-traded funds (ETFs).
To make this simple, think of an ETF as the cousin of the closed-end fund. ETF shares trade on the stock exchange—just like closed-end funds. But ETFs generally track a market index, like the Nasdaq or Dow Jones Industrial Average, making them more efficient (lower fees and natually diversified) than closed-end funds and a lot easier to understand. Most ETFs also charge lower fees and are more tax-efficient because the securities in index-based portfolios aren't traded often.
Closed-end funds do have a few benefits:
• A closed-end fund's discount offers you a bonus when the gap between the share price and NAV narrows after investment.
• A closed-end fund's manager can invest without worrying that cash may be needed to meet sudden redemptions by large numbers of jittery investors, as is the case with open-end fund managers.
• Closed-end funds tend to pay investors higher levels of income because they invest more heavily in income-producing assets — more inflows of new money.
Bottom line: Unless you're willing to roll up your sleeves and research closed-end funds and their discounts, you may be better off in a similar open-end fund or ETF.
How to Invest in a Closed-End Fund
• Scan the horizon. Once you decide what kind of fund to add to your portfolio (U.S. stock, emerging markets, etc.), check out Morningstar's directory here.
• Review the discount. The bigger the gap between a fund's share price and NAV, the more likely it will narrow over time and provide you with a bonus. To evaluate the current gap, ask for the fund's average one-year discount since its start. Then compare it to the fund's current discount.
You can generally assume that the fund's discount eventually will migrate back to its historical average. For example, if a fund's historical average discount is -7% but it is now trading at a -12% discount, you can expect the fund will return to its historical 7% average — and you'll wind up pocketing the difference.
• Size up performance. The best measure of a closed-end fund's return is its performance over time, plus the effect on performance of the fund's distributions. Also, the longer the fund has been in existence with the same manager, the better. We think a fund should have at least five years of performance before you invest in it.
• Mind the debt. Beware of closed-end funds with more than 40% of debt to total assets. Such a debt level usually means the fund's manager is using leverage to boost the income yield paid to investors, which makes the fund riskier.
• Scope your expenses. To invest in a closed-end fund, you'll have to pay a commission on trades as well as fund expenses and high annual management fees that range from 1% to 2% of your investment. To hold costs down, look for closed-end funds with low expenses and fees, and consider trading shares through a discount brokerage.
• Check the yield. Closed-end funds tend to generate more income than open-end funds. When considering yield-producing funds, look for an annual yield that's a couple of percentage points over that offered by U.S. Treasuries. Or look for a fund that has a discount of 10% or more, unless it's a low-risk bond fund. Just be sure the high discount isn't the result of capital distributions or a one-time payout.
• Mind your taxes. A high percentage of closed-end funds invest in bonds and preferred stocks to provide investors with higher yields than common stocks. Remember, in taxable accounts, this yield will be taxed as income, not the lower dividend tax rate.
• Skip IPOs. Buying shares of a closed-end fund just when they're offered through an initial public offering (IPO) comes with big risks. That's because the fund's discount—or gap between share price and NAV—typically widens in the months following an IPO.
• Size up the manager. See how long the fund's manager has been in place. The longer the better if the fund has delivered above-average returns.
• Compare the fund. See how the closed-end fund you're considering stacks up against a similar open-end or exchange-traded fund. Be sure to compare performance, fees and expenses.

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Heidi Sander knows firsthand the importance of hospice.
New Stratford Writers Festival event to support the new hospice
Heidi Sander knows firsthand the importance of hospice.
The Stratford Writers Festival's creative director said she had a "wonderful" hospice volunteer during her mother's final year and was "so grateful for that support." So it was a no-brainer to add a new event to this year's festival supporting the Stratford Perth Rotary Hospice.
"I had a personal caregiving journey with my mom. I know how important community support is, which is why I wanted to benefit the hospice," Sander said Friday.
The festival has put together a literary brunch on its opening weekend featuring former CBC radio anchor Judy Maddren hosting a question-and-answer session with author Lise Leblanc, who wrote the Conscious Caregiving Guide.
"Lise has written this great guide for caregivers that focuses on the elements of caregiving, but also self-care for a caregiver," Sander said. "We're hoping that people can just take a short hour break during an afternoon and just feel the support among caregivers within this event and from the tips that Lise will be giving as well."
Each person in attendance will receive a copy of the book along with brunch. The event is Oct. 20 from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at Revival House, which is home to multiple literary brunches throughout the 10-day festival. Tickets for the Leblanc and Maddren session are $35, with proceeds supporting the newly opened Greenwood Drive facility.
"It's a wonderful event," Sander said. "It's fairly reasonable for what you're getting, and it's also supporting the hospice."
Sander said they want to have a hospice-fundraising event each year.
As for this year's writers festival, featuring a wide range of panels, workshops and contests, it kicks off on Oct. 18 and concludes Oct. 27. There's once again a heavy emphasis on local authors.
"We have such amazing creative talent in Stratford and we really want to showcase that," she said.
This is year four for the fall festival.
"It's incredible how the years have flown by," she said. "It's really grown into a community event, which is incredible."
For more information and tickets, visit stratfordwritersfestival.com.
WHAT: Stratford Writers Festival hospice fundraiser
WHEN: Oct. 20 from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
WHERE: Revival House
TICKETS: $35 at stratfordwritersfestival.com


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As the need for bandwidth continues to grow, an efficient end-to-end network solution is needed to better capitalize on the current utility communications network infrastructure and improve operational efficiency. Additionally, the solution should enable utility companies to meet future network infrastructure requirements with flexible, future-proof technology and design.
Walker and Associates offers comprehensive solutions from over 400 leading manufacturer partners, enabling utility companies to lower network costs through consolidation, investment protection, as well as provide the solutions to generate new revenue streams through value-added services.
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Provide reliable connectivity solutions for substations, distribution sites, and vital applications to ensure uninterrupted communications in the transmission and distribution network.
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The Chicago teachers' strike may seem at first glimpse as an anomaly: a partisan Democratic mayor taking on a powerful public employees union.
Organized labor has historically been one of the Democratic Party's most loyal constituencies. But the fight underway in Chicago illustrates how that dynamic is changing.
Led by President Obama, a new generation of Democratic leaders is clashing with teachers unions over how to reform the nation's education system. Chicago Mayor (and former Obama chief of staff) Rahm Emanuel is one of the president's foot soldiers in that movement, which focuses on linking teacher pay to student achievement and opening more charter schools. Another is Education Secretary Arne Duncan, who used to run Chicago Public Schools and is the architect of Obama's Race to the Top initiative.
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Teachers unions oppose many of the reform measures; teacher evaluations are among the sticking points in Chicago. But unlike Republicans, who are trying to weaken unions as embodiments of government waste, Democrats still count on them for votes.
Obama, in particular, needs the support of unions to beat Mitt Romney in November. That, in part, is why you don't hear much anti-union talk from Democrats -- until something like the Chicago strike happens, political analysts say.
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The strike "complicates matters," said Daniel DiSalvo, an assistant professor of political science at City College of New York. "It shows that this is a much more bipartisan issue than previously recognized."
It remains unclear what, if any, impact the hours-old strike in Chicago will have on the presidential race. The education reform movement has become popular in the inner cities, a traditional Democratic stronghold where schools often lag behind the rest of the country. A recent Gallup poll showed that Obama's handling of education was second in popularity only to terrorism.
Among independent voters, the belief that unions are necessary to protect workers has fallen since the 1990s, according to the Pew Research Center. And more than half of swing voters think unions have too much power, Pew found.
Chicago is nothing if not a Democratic city, and Obama, its hometown hero, is expected to win the vote there, and in Illinois. But there remains a risk that teachers and members of other unions won't support him as enthusiastically.
"Teachers are kind of a captured constituency," said Patrick Flavin, a political science professor at Baylor University who has studied labor unions. "So let's say they're angry with Rahm or Obama for not looking out for their best interests. Where else are they going to go? They're not likely to vote Republican. They just may be less likely to vote at all."
At the same time, many unions have diverted resources from supporting Obama to fighting Republican attempts to restrict collective bargaining.
Obama's Republican opponent, Mitt Romney, tried to take advantage of the strike on Monday by criticizing Obama's courting of unions.
"President Obama has chosen his side in this fight, sending his Vice President last year to assure the nation's largest teachers union that 'you should have no doubt about my affection for you and the President's commitment to you,'" Romney said in a statement. "I choose to side with the parents and students depending on public schools to give them the skills to succeed, and my plan for education reform will do exactly that."
Obama spokesman Jay Carney said the president had not expressed an opinion on the strike. "We're urging both sides to resolve it," Carney said, according to NBC News.
Another danger to Obama is that the strike will hurt his fundraising; Emanuel is one of the president's top fundraisers, but he may not be able to concentrate as much on that job as he focuses on his problems in Chicago.
But Obama doesn't seem to have much problem in that regard. The president reported raising more cash than Romney in August, the first time he'd beaten Romney in four months.
"I don't think the president will be impacted negatively by this," Flavin said.
That could change, if the strike drags on for weeks, however. The longer it lasts, the more attention it will receive, and that gives the public more time to learn about the Democrats' complicated relationship with teachers unions.


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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People with certain cancers enrolled in clinical trials survive longer, not necessarily from the treatment itself but potentially because those enrolled are better off to begin with, according to new research.
"The survival benefits for an individual to be on a cancer trial are not necessarily to be on a trial itself. Cancer trials select patients who are healthier and are able to tolerate treatments," said senior study author Dr. Waddah Al-Refaie, chief of surgical oncology at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, D.C.
For decades, researchers have suspected that even if an experimental treatment isn't better than currently available care, clinical trials could help patients because of the close monitoring from doctors.
To determine whether clinical trials help patients regardless of treatment success, researchers examined the survival of more than 550,000 people with cancer listed in the California Cancer Registry between 2002 and 2006.
Researchers found a 26 percent decrease in the risk of death for cancer patients enrolled in clinical trials, according to research published in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons. The study did not report how many people died.
The increased survival was only seen in people with lung, colon and breast cancers. Patients with cancer of the skin, esophagus, stomach, liver or pancreas did not have any increase in survival, researchers found.
Participation in clinical trials was extremely low, as several other studies have noted: Just a third of one percent of patients, or 1,846 people.
Clinical trial participants tended to be younger than 65 and affected by earlier stages of cancer, factors that could explain why enrollees survived longer than cancer patients who didn't pursue experimental trials.
Researchers also found that participants tended to be white, a long-held issue with clinical trials.
"This is a call to broaden the criteria of clinical trials to represent the individuals we see in the clinic: older patients, non-whites, under-insured and sicker individuals," Al-Refaie told Reuters Health.
However, the study didn't adequately distinguish whether trials themselves can help patients, according to Colin Begg, chair of epidemiology and biostatistics at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York.
"That's not something that's possible to do in this study," Begg, who was not involved in the current study, told Reuters Health.
Survival may not even be a good way to determine a clinical trial's benefit, according to Dr. Otis Brawley, chief medical officer of the American Cancer Society.
Increased survival doesn't mean that patients live longer with cancer, "it's that they know they have cancer for a longer period of time," Brawley told Reuters Health.
Not only do clinical trials potentially select for healthier participants, but also for more engaged and resourceful doctors.
"Doctors who participate in clinical trials are usually the folks who have a higher standard of care," said Brawley, who was not involved in the study. "They learn how to maintain higher standards through participation in clinical trials."
Clinical trials are closely monitored by experts, while standard treatments typically have no outside audits, which could impact survival.
"Even if you're not in a clinical trial, patients who talk to their doctors and spend a lot of time trying to understand their disease - it's my belief that those patients end up doing better," Brawley said.
SOURCE: bit.ly/13l869w Journal of the American College of Surgeons, online February 13, 2013.


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Mounting the Microbeast PLUS unit
Attach the Microbeast PLUS unit by using one of the provided 3M® gyropads at a preferably low vibrating position on your helicopter such as the gyro platform or receiver platform. You may need to choose another type of mounting pad depending on the vibration pattern of your helicopter. For more information please ask you Microbeast PLUS dealer.
The MICROBEAST PLUS unit can be attached flat or upright on the helicopter. However, the servo connector pins must always point towards the front or rear of the helicopter. The small white sensor pinboard on the side must always be inline with flight direction.
Pay attention that the edges of the Microbeast PLUS unit are all parallel with the corresponding rotational axes of the helicopter! Especially make sure that the mounting platform is perpendicular to the main shaft! On the other hand it is not important that the unit is directly placed on the rotation axis (which is nearly impossible).
There are eight possible mounting orientations:
Preparing the transmitter
You can use nearly any transmitter that provides at least 6 channels. By default 5 channels are used for controlling Microbeast PLUS and one channel controls the motor. If using additional features like AttitudeControl or (nitro) RPM Governor more channels may be useful to have.
Create a new model in your radio's model memory. Disable any mixing functions for the swashplate or rudder. Each function should be assigned to just one receiver channel.
Never enable your radio's eCCPM mixing function! All the swashplate mixing will be done by Microbeast PLUS. Always set your radio's swash mixer to mCCPM (mechanical mixing) which is often called "H1", "1 servo" or "normal" mixing or disable "swash mixing" if applicable.
Be sure that all trims and sub trims are disabled and that all servo travels are set to 100%. Increasing or decreasing the servo travel/stick throw for aileron, elevator and rudder will later adjust the (maximum) control rates. For the moment to setup Microbeast PLUS let anything stay at default. Also do not adjust the collective pitch curve at the moment. For the setup procedures it has to be set as a straight line reaching from -100% to +100% (or 0 to 100% depending on radio brand).
Again make sure that there are no mixing functions active (for example rudder revo-mixing). Have a look at the radio's servo monitor: each stick has to control one channel/servo output (except for thrust stick which typically controls collective pitch and motor). Remember when using Microbeast PLUS you do not directly control the servos of the helicopter. By moving a stick you give a control command to the Microbeast PLUS unit which then performs the necessary servo movements to move the helictoper in the commanded direction. Each control command is bound to one servo output channel of the transmitter.
Other functions such as throttle curves, ESC switches or auxiliary functions can be adjusted as usual. When using the RPM Governor function the throttle adjustment will be described later. Also the switch assignment for AttitudeControl will discussed at the specific topic.
Always make sure that the motor in electric models can not start when doing the adjustment work! If the drive battery is used as power supply for receiver, servos and Microbeast PLUS, disconnect the motor from the ESC.


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On the positive side, having applications provided from the cloud offers enterprises of all sizes the possibility the possibility of low-cost compute resources that are almost infinitely scalable. There's the ability to pay "by the hour" for resources only when they are needed, and for sudden surges in demand for resources to be accommodated very easily. Cloud computing also frees up capital that would otherwise be tied up in hardware and data center bricks and mortar, and it frees up IT staffers who would otherwise be tending to servers so they can work on more productive IT endeavors.
But it's not all sunshine and roses: The drawbacks revolve around issues about data security and how sensible it is to store it with a third party (assuming regulatory requirements permit it); portability and the possibility of being locked in to one cloud provider; reliability; data logging; speed and the inevitable latency when dealing with servers in the cloud half a continent away; and geo-political worries where in the world is the cloud data center running your apps, and do you want it there? This last is less of an issue for U.S.-based enterprises, but it is a very real concern for businesses in many other countries.
But for some organizations there's one real show stopper when it comes to getting the benefits of cloud computing: heterogeneity. Many corporate data centers have many different generations of servers from a variety of vendors running different operating systems on different processors Windows, AIX, Solaris, Linux, Intel, PowerPC, SPARC and so on. In contrast, most cloud services offer a limited choice of operating systems running on a narrow range of hardware.
This leaves heterogeneous enterprises in a bit of a quandary. It may be possible to offload some applications into the cloud, but the remainder still must be managed and run in-house. If this is the case, then there may be some efficiency benefits, but a smaller data center could actually mean that many economies of scale are lost. What remains is a hodge-podge of different systems that need a great deal of time and many different skill sets to manage, while the easier-to-manage systems would be gone. Efficiency actually goes down.
One solution is to operate a cloud environment in-house: a so-called "internal cloud," said Steve Oberlin, chief scientist at Cassatt, a San Jose, Calif.-based IT infrastructure management software vendor. "Internal clouds help you to pool your computing resources into a cloud and manage it, applying server resources dynamically on the fly in response to demand," he says. "What you end up with is higher utilization and efficiency."
Many organizations have already embarked on virtualization programs to boost server utilization rates and reduce power and space requirements in the data center, but Oberlin says an internal cloud goes beyond this. It enables applications that are not suitable for virtualization (such as those that require the resources of an entire server at peak times) to run more efficiently, and it includes virtualized servers anyway: virtualization, in other words, is part of an internal cloud solution, he says.
Which to Choose?
But here's an important question: Which is better, implementing an internal cloud or using a public cloud? The answer, according to James Staten, a principal analyst at Forrester, is that both have their advantages and disadvantages. "Internal clouds are good because you can follow all of your workflow and security guidelines, and ensure that you are running the right code. The trade-off is that you can't reach the economies of scale that public cloud providers achieve," he said.
"On the other hand, if you use a public cloud provider you end up having to do lots of work like license management and adapting to the processes of the public cloud. You have to work with what is on offer. But you do get the benefits of economies of scale."
So what does it mean to run an internal cloud? At the most basic level, Cassatt's Active Response software which simply manages power by monitoring usage and applying policies to shut down servers at non-peak times when they are not required, such as on weekends. "You can get pretty dramatic savings on your power bill from this," said Oberlin. "We see significant energy savings, and an ROI of just nine months."
But this in itself is not cloud computing in the normal sense of the word. To achieve this, Cassatt uses a database of server images, a set of rules that define the service levels that applications must achieve, and management software that controls the whole setup. Put simply, the management software monitors each application, and when necessary it boots appropriate servers with the correct image over the network to add resources to the applications. At less busy periods, unneeded resources are shut down so they can remain idle or reallocate to other applications that need them. There is still some inefficiency in heterogeneous environments because some hardware can run only some, but not all, server images; however, resources can still be pooled among compatible applications. "In terms of cost savings, a typical data center with low double-digit efficiency can see 40 percent to 50 percent reduction in the number of servers required to provide the same sort of service level, and still have better headroom and agility," said Oberlin.
In fact enterprises aren't necessarily restricted to a single data center when it comes to running an internal cloud. Cassatt is soon to release an "Enterprise edition" of its Active Response software, which pools resources across different data centers. And it doesn't end there. The software will allow an enterprise to extend its resource pool by including resources that come from an external cloud provider as well. "You could have a fixed amount of resources available to you locally or at another data center, and deal with unplanned peaks in demand by using resources from an external cloud provider," Oberlin said.
This practice of using an external public cloud provider for extra capacity will become increasingly common, Forrester's Staten said. "At the moment, we are seeing companies using isolated internal clouds, but we certainly think they will end up adopting a "hybrid cloud" or "cloud bursting " approach." IBM demonstrated a system earlier this month that enables companies to move application processing from an internal cloud to a public cloud facility, while keeping all data stored within the private cloud. This type of hybrid cloud approach could prove popular with companies that can't otherwise use a public cloud for security or regulatory reasons.
It's still the early days for cloud computing, but if efficiency gains in the order of 40 percent to 50 percent are possible, then enterprises unwilling or unable to use a public cloud provider will have to give internal clouds a very long, hard look.


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'Time' Magazine Breast-Feeding Mom: Why I Did It — VIDEO
Jamie Lynn Grumet opens up in her first big interview — find out what she had to say about being on the Time cover that has EVERYONE talking!
The controversial Time magazine cover of blogger Jamie Lynne Grumet nursing her nearly 4-year-old son Aram has spurred intense debate all over the country. So what did Jamie have to say?
Jamie said in a May 10 Today Show interview that she wasn't expecting the wild response but knew "exactly what we were going to get into," and added, "I understand some of the breast-feeding advocates are actually upset about this."
The cover touts Dr. Bill Seers' theory on "attachment parenting" that says moms and their children should extend their love and care as long as possible.
Time Magazine 'Are You Mom Enough?' — Are You CRAZY Enough?
Naturally, Jamie is a strong believer in this practice that includes like breast-feeding and co-sleeping through the toddler years, saying "I think that it gives my children a strong bond."
"It's not right for everybody," she said, "You need to do what's best for your baby and for your own family."
Her son Aram, Dr. Bill Seers, and Time's science editor Jeffery Kluger also made an appearance on the Today Show on May 10.
Dr. Seers weighed in on the issue: "It's not extreme. If you were on an island and you had no mother-in-law, no psychologists, no doctors around, no experts, this is what you would naturally and instinctively do to give your baby the best involvement you'll ever get."
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- Paul McIlhenny died Saturday at the age of 68; the cause of death is unknown
- McIlhenny was a fourth-generation member of his family to make Tabasco
- He is credited with increasing sales, adding more Tabasco-brand products
- He is survived by his wife, two daughters and four grandchildren
Paul McIlhenny, the chairman and chief executive of the company that makes Tabasco sauce, has died. He was 68.
McIlhenny Company, based in Avery Island, Louisiana, said he died Saturday. The cause of death was not immediately clear.
"All of McIlhenny Company and the McIlhenny and Avery families are deeply saddened by this news," Tony Simmons, president of McIlhenny Company, said in a statement Sunday. "We will clearly miss Paul's devoted leadership but will more sorely feel the loss of his acumen, his charm and his irrepressible sense of humor."
McIlhenny was part of the sixth generation of his family to live on Avery Island and among the fourth generation to make Tabasco, the iconic hot pepper sauce.
He joined the 145-year-old company in 1967 and is credited with overseeing years of record growth in sales and earnings. He is also credited with introducing new flavors and products, and expanding where Tabasco brand products are sold.
McIlhenny attended the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee.
In 2006, he was Rex, the first King of Carnival after Hurricane Katrina.
Around that time, McIlhenny reportedly joked that if the subject of hot sauce came up, he'd say: "That's one form of global warming I'm totally in favor of."
"We're defending the world against bland food," he said, according to The Times-Picayune newspaper.
McIlhenny loved wing shooting, red fishing, wine tasting and game cooking.
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Tor at the Heart: Riseup.net
During the month of December, we're highlighting other organizations and projects that rely on Tor, build on Tor, or are accomplishing their missions better because Tor exists. Check out our blog each day to learn about our fellow travelers. And please support the Tor Project! We're at the heart of Internet freedom.
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Riseup.net was started back in 1999 after the WTO protests in Seattle. They provide online communication tools, including email, chat, file uploads and collaborative platforms for people and groups working on liberatory social change. Riseup is a project to create democratic alternatives and to practice self-determination through the control of secure means of communication.
The Riseup collective is made up of many "birds" who believe it is vital that essential communication infrastructure be controlled by movement organizations and not by corporations or governments.
They strive to keep mail as secure and private as possible. They do not log your IP address. (Most services keep detailed records of every machine that connects to their servers. Riseup only keeps information that cannot be used to uniquely identify your machine). All of your data, including your mail, is stored by riseup.net in encrypted form. They work hard to keep their servers secure and well defended against any malicious attack. They do not share any of their user data with anyone. They actively fight all attempts to subpoena or otherwise acquire any user information or logs. They do not read, search, or process any of your incoming or outgoing mail, other than by automatic means to protect you from viruses and spam or when directed to do so by you when troubleshooting.
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In addition, for years Riseup has been providing Onion Services for each of their services. Start using them today here!
We also can't thank them enough for writing this Onion Service Best Practices Guide, helping countless users and services around the Internet to be more secure, and truly making everyone not part of a DarkWeb but rather a SecureWeb (tm).
We hope we can continue this close relationship with Riseup. So many Tor users around the world depend on them for protection. Please visit our bird friends at Riseup and support their critical work!
And don't forget to donate to the Tor Project and get involved!
Thank you for reading, and soon enjoy not being in 2016 anymore! :)
> So many Tor users around
> So many Tor users around the world depend on them for protection
their vpn propose usa servers , it is a short choice for an anonymity tool_[users around the world _center ?_].
Thanks so much for
Thanks so much for highlighting the critical role played by Riseup in promoting democracy around the world!
As a Riseup user myself, I know how vital this resource is for activists and political dissidents everywhere--- and how strained are their coffers, so I hope Tor users who use this blog will request an account and donate to help pay for the Riseup servers.
Maybe I missed something, but did you fail to mention the fact that Tails Project extensively uses Riseup Labs for bug tracking and development collaborations?
The Tails version of Tor Browser includes a bookmark to the Riseup webmail server, which possibly should point to the onion rather than the https link. One important point about Riseup webmail: if both sender and recipient have accounts at riseup.net and do not forward emails to accounts elsewhere, it is believed that emails between them should never leave the Riseup servers at all, which could make it much harder for attackers to snoop on metadata (e.g. for traffic analysis, social networking analysis) without risking breaking into the network. This could be an enormous advantage for reporters communicating with sources, especially in cases when other communication modes are not available.
Further, since the Riseup sysadmins try to run a secure ship, even sophisticated state sponsored attackers may acknowledge that any attempts to break into the Riseup network may be noticed, or even worse for them, their malware may be captured, reverse engineered, and published with attribution! This stands in contrast to commercial providers, where security is a low priority (even worse, some commercial webmail providers claim but do not attempt to provide high security).
I hope a Riseup representative can comment on concerns among Riseup users about the fact that the warrant canary
has not been recently updated. This should be updated "approximately" every 3 months but not updated since Aug 2016. To be sure, such concerns have been expressed before, and on those occasions the canary was eventually updated, with no explanation for the delay.
However, a few months ago, the Riseup blog tweeted a reassurance which was oddly worded "no *activists* are at risk", leading to concern that Riseup has possibly been hit with an NSL or some other USG procedure accompanied by a gag order, or perhaps even that Riseup sysadmins are "operating under duress". Some replies to user emails have also been strangely worded. My latest information (some weeks old) seemed to suggest that Riseup was seeking legal advice about something, and hoping to say more after talking with their lawyers.
Micah Lee, a tech advisor to EFF and The Intercept, wrote about the rumors two weeks ago in this story at The Intercept:
Something Happened to Activist Email Provider Riseup, but It Hasn't Been Compromised
Micah Lee
29 Nov 2016
@ The Intercept: please make sure your reporters's GPG keys as published at The Intercept have not expired! And reporters, please check your Riseup account inboxes. With great caution, since some users report receiving suspected phishing emails.
Regardless of the rumors, as far as I know, Riseup is one of the very few webmail providers which is likely to at least try to fight any NSL or other attempt to exploit "counterterrorism" legislation to harass political dissidents, environmentalists, scientists, technologists, journalists, social justice activists, anti-drug cartel bloggers, and many others who use Riseup.
AFAIK Micah is no longer
AFAIK Micah is no longer part of the EFF.
I believe you are correct.
I believe you are correct.
Yes, I believe that is true.
Yes, I believe that is true.
Why? Something happened?
Why? Something happened?
rise.up is for communicating
rise.up is for communicating between usa guys inside usa territories.
And all is under survey , when i am typing even the admin could censor & replace my words by his own sentences.
riseup is operating under a
riseup is operating under a neocommunist doctrine. If you are alright with people preaching the 'evil of fascism' where 'fascism' is some arbitrary notion of what they don't approve, then I guess you can use their services. If you are not ok with Stalin's ghost, then you should stay clear.
Lol you should be a
Lol you should be a comedian. The Riseup people are as far away from Stalinism as they could possibly be. They're anarchists.
> The Riseup people are as
> The Riseup people are as far away from Stalinism as they could possibly be.
> They're anarchists.
Well, not that either, not really. A very old version of the article at Wikipedia
did characterize Riseup as an "anarchist" collective, but Riseup itself does not mention anarchy in their own statement of political principles:
The current version of the Wikipedia article says:
> Riseup is a volunteer-run collective providing secure email account, email list, VPN, online chat, and other online services; the organization was launched by activists in Seattle in 1999.
Hope this clears up the nature of Riseup's political stance.
you know , even if they were
you know , even if they were martians multicolored without feet & two heads and anarchists ... i should give it a try ...
I bet the Riseup collective
I bet the Riseup collective wouldn't know the difference between fascism, nationalism and nazism. So it's funny they ask for differentiation between anarchism and stalinism or whatever they call it now.
As a Riseup member, I am
As a Riseup member, I am perhaps entitled to question your knowledge of our knowledge of history and national/international politics.
Hello , These "words"
Hello ,
These "words" [anarchist,socialist,communist,fascism,etc.] are coming from an old historic culture and are not understood by young 'nation' ... so you know , the usa and his knowdledge of the politics ...
So only "old nations" such
So only "old nations" such as Russia, but not "young nations" such as the USA, are capable of understanding political/historical terms?
But aren't we (Americans) all Russians now? Now that a Putin puppet has been "elected" to run the USG?
> So... May i answer to you
> So...
May i answer to you quietly ?
The 'political/historical terms' in reference were known by a struggle during few hundred of centuries and learn before during few thousand ...
A - your culture -usa- is non-existent :
How could you understand "terms" that you have not built with your blood ?
e.g. An anarchist in the usa is a tramp hiding in a train.
e.g. A socialist in the usa is a policeman who is speaking about his italian village.
e.g. A communist in the usa is someone who earns his money in the usa but spends it in cuba
B - your history -usa- is empty :
e.g. The us_ speaks between foreign civilization by a commercial agreement and it is forced not discussed and at our advantage.
> But ...
Russia & Usa are allies and trump-putin are a better solution for the peace & the development than E.U _ if you should have preferred an abandoned [lost nation ?] country without identity governed by the downiest people , why have not voted for their opponent ?
If you are a genuine or a native american (i have few doubt about that but who knows ..); you should look at that you win (a clean & strong nation) & not that you loose (the trash-rap dance-ist).
I dare you: pilot an
I dare you: pilot an ultralight into the courtyard of the cadet barracks at West Point Military Academy and *say that again*! :-)
Actually, this one is quite funny:
o An American anarchist is a tramp hiding in a train.
But what does it mean? Is it some kind of dig at Woody Guthrie?
I hear that Putin was sorely annoyed when Bob Dylan won a Nobel Prize, because for reasons known only to himself, he felt he should have won.
Be this as it may, your deprecation of American political dissidents begs the question: if American anarchists are such wimps, why is the FBI so frightened by them?
Assuming for the sake of argument that the feds are not also wimps (which admittedly may be the simplest explanation), one answer is that the only mission statement FBI cares about, follows closely, and is somewhat effective in fulfilling (in common with too many other agencies operated by various governments) is: "dont embarrass the agency". And the following tells the short story of a big embarrassment early in the FBI's disreputable history of failure and oppression:
Yes, you read that right--- before the truck bomb there was the horse-drawn buggy bomb. Good grief.
Anyway, at Riseup we plan marches, media stunts, that kind of thing. And the FBI always claims that they "must" [sic] spy on us all every minute because there might be *someone* somewhere who isn't satisfied with nonviolent approaches to politics. And we reply that using that kind of hypothetical, you can "justify" any oppression. Wonderful.
In short , you have not the
In short , you have not the official right to manifest _ you have not won it and no one has given it to you so you are acting illegally and for nothing (if ouba_ouba & harry_son had to do something they should have yet did that ! ).
*the political terms in reference are a right given by the congress (1897/1929/1962) & have not such importance than a struggle from at least 1000 years.
*i did not know that dylan-bob was looking for a job hiding in a train living with his misery in 1929.
*a false history/opinion from fake usa guy (or russian) even studying at west point are for useless & criminal immigrants.
*i did not know that putin the great had the ambition to be an american citizen walking on the street with his guitar singing 'i love new-york'
*Agencies do not care of the protesters , a bonus is given when someone is matched & arrested
in short , you need some education and certainly not a civilized world.
> you have not the official
> you have not the official right to manifest _ you have not won it and no one has given it to you so you are acting illegally
I *think* you might be claiming that
o I am posting opinions which have not been sanctioned by officials of my government (or yours?)--- I'm proud to affirm that this at least is correct!
o I am implicitly asserting a universal right to free speech--- damn right I am!
o No government has offered me or anyone else such a right--- this one is wrong; you should possibly read the Bill of Rights, and then the Constitutions of some non-USA nations, many of which enunciate a universal right to free speech; you surely recognize that Tor Project is all about the universal right to free speech, so you must know you are not likely to win many adherents in this blog.
> and for nothing (if ouba_ouba & harry_son had to do something they should have yet did that !
This is sufficiently incoherent to cause me some concern that I might be trying to argue with a nonhuman "author". If not, how strange that modern technology has maneuvered a passionate defender of human rights into the worst violation of all--- expressing doubts about the humanity of a human. Good grief. Sometimes it appears literally impossible to exist in the 21st century without being not merely a criminal, but the worst kind of criminal. I can only hope that my expression of doubt about my doubt will absolve me in this instance.
> even studying at west point are for useless & criminal immigrants
So you criticize West Point for... admitting the occasional first generation immigrant?
I can think of all kinds of criticisms, but open admission of qualified candidates regardless of ethnic origin is not one of them.
> i did not know that putin the great had the ambition to be an american citizen walking on the street with his guitar singing 'i love new-york'
I notice you are not denying the rumor that Putin, like Hitler, fancies himself a meritorious artist.
> Agencies do not care of the protesters , a bonus is given when someone is matched & arrested
I *think* you might be stating, with approval, that Surveillance State operatives are given a bonus each time they deanonymize someone, leading to an arrest. No doubt, but what is your point?
> you need some education and certainly not a civilized world.
I *think* you might be stating that you want to send privacy advocates to some kind of political re-education camp, and that defenders of human rights do not deserve the benefits of civilization.
We would argue that the best of all benefits are the rights to live as a human being free to travel, associate, read, think and write freely, to own our own lives and to have the opportunity to define for ourselves who we are and what we want to be the focus of our own lives. But it seems you want to deny us all of these rights.
> i did not know that putin
> i did not know that putin the great had the ambition to be an american citizen walking on the street with his guitar singing 'i love new-york'
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While their political stance
While their political stance troubles me, I think that a pragmatic alliance is a valid approach.
I am willing to follow the "enemy of my enemy" rule if it comes to something so benign as using a group's internet service.
For anyone interested in
For anyone interested in learning what are the actual political principles espoused by Riseup, which are very different from what this commentator claims, see
And you should also mention
And you should also mention that the real version of this page used to be quite different. The riseup team decided recently to change it into what you linked to because of the negative controversy against their original manifest, which used to be their flagship for years.
Citation? I've been a member
I've been a member for many years and the page has not changed in that time.
But in any case, any collective is entitled to change its political stance is response to drastically changed political conditions, agreed?
Here's a snapshot of the old
Here's a snapshot of the old one, I didn't figure out when it changed
And the funny thing is that
And the funny thing is that these days 'communities of resistance' are mostly nationalists that riseup.net would probably not approve of :-)
> these days 'communities of
> these days 'communities of resistance' are mostly nationalists
Do you have any evidence for that?
You are most likely correct that few Riseup members adhere to nationalist, much less racist or genocidal views, and those who espouse the latter are sure to be politely asked to close the door quietly as they leave.
I think there used to be
I think there used to be another one, more hardcore.
>> riseup is operating under
>> riseup is operating under a neocommunist doctrine. If you are alright with people preaching the 'evil of fascism' where 'fascism' is some arbitrary notion of what they don't approve, then I guess you can use their services. If you are not ok with Stalin's ghost, then you should stay clear.
It seems you may be Russian.
I wonder whether you might be prepared to admit that a poem which Yevtushenko wrote (in English) about the unexpected (to CIA) collapse of the USSR seems newly relevant to the situation facing American dissidents after the election of the openly pro-Putin authoritarian, Donald Trump:
> We buried our icons.
> We didn't believe in our own great books.
> We fight only with alien grievances.
> Is it true that we didn't survive under our own
> yoke,
> Becoming for ourselves worse than our foreign
> enemies?
ISIS is awful, but to many it seems clear that US and RU regimes are far more dangerous to the average citizen living anywhere in the world, but perhaps especially to those living in US or RU.
That is what GPG is for. You
That is what GPG is for. You can ensure that the admin of Riseup (or of the Tor Project blog. I'm not entirely sure which you meant) cannot replace what you said with anything else. They could try to censor you outright, but they could not forge your words.
> rise.up is for
> rise.up is for communicating between usa guys inside usa territories.
Not true. For example, civil libertarians in Spain used Riseup to organize to oppose the "Vomit Law". Political dissidents use Riseup to track political corruption in Latin America and Africa. Dissidents around the world use Riseup to stay in touch.
but the vpn are based in the
but the vpn are based in the usa : dangerous for non-residents.
You may be interested in
You may be interested in this story:
The DDoS vigilantes trying to silence Black Lives Matter
The Web lets anyone be a publisher—or a vigilante.
Corin Faife
14 Dec 2016
If the moderator allows, I will explain the connection with the potential for server seizures in another comment. If the moderator permits, I hope to explain why this story, which might seem to validate your concern, should *not* deter anyone from using Riseup; quite the contrary, on the whole IMO you are unlikely to find a safer place to be an activist on-line than Riseup.
> If the moderator allows ok
> If the moderator allows
ok : explain that to all_ it is important to clarify this point .. (the link is in http).
your story has nothing to do
your story has nothing to do with usa based vpn used by rise.up and your link is not in https : please stop write above and under every post without reading the subject !
thank you !
> your story has nothing to
> your story has nothing to do with usa based vpn used by rise.up
You mean the VPN service offered by Riseup Networks (riseup.net)?
There is a connection, but the comment explaining it in detail was apparently not passed by the moderator, I don't know why not. (It is also possible, I suppose, that it vanished into the ether due to enemy interference with the connection to blog.torproject.org via Tor nodes possibly operated by an unfriendly entity such as GCHQ or GRU.)
Interested persons can search for stories about a seizure by FBI of a server operated by Riseup for MayFirst, which was first reported by Riseup itself with a clear explanation of why the consequences for Riseup itself were (fortunately) minimal. The seizure was part of a worldwide raid by FBI in which dozens of servers operating remailers were seized, in a failed attempt to stop an unknown actor who was allegedly using remailers to send bomb threats. AFAIK, no actual bombs were ever discovered, and the threats continued well after the raid.
Oh dear, it seems the
Oh dear, it seems the explanatory comment was not passed?
OK, it appeared; see > Did
OK, it appeared; see
> Did you mean that seizures of servers by US LEAs endanger activists outside the USA *more* or *less* than activists inside the USA (and thus easily arrested by those same LEAs)? If the latter, well, obviously. If the former, please explain your reasoning.
Thanks to the moderator for your generosity.
> but the vpn are based in
> but the vpn are based in the usa : dangerous for non-residents.
Did you mean that seizures of servers by US LEAs endanger activists outside the USA *more* or *less* than activists inside the USA (and thus easily arrested by those same LEAs)? If the latter, well, obviously. If the former, please explain your reasoning.
It is unfortunately true that activist collectives around the world frequently experience harassment, including equipment seizures and even raids by local "security authorities".
For example, a Brazilian sister to Riseup had a server seized during political unrest in that country:
Riseup stands in solidarity with Saravá
26 April, 2014
>> The Saravá Group is facing the imminent threat of the seizure of its main server by the Public Prosecutor in Brazil. This action comes at a time when Brazil is hosting netmundial, a conference on the future of internet governance. Ironically, earlier this week Brazil passed legislation touted as a "Bill of Rights" for the internet. Yet only days later...
Another group with somewhat similar aims, MayFirst, had a server seized by FBI from the NYC field office in 2012 in connection with FBI's increasingly desperate attempts to identity an anonymous person who was threatening schools in another US state. Because that server was in a colocation facility where MayFirst and Riseup shared space, Riseup users were also affected (but the damage was quickly repaired; the seized server was never used again out of fear that FBI had planted an APT backdoor on it; I do not know the outcome of forensic examination which attempted to find and reverse engineer any malware planted by FBI).
Here is Riseup's statement about that event:
FBI seizes server providing anonymous remailer and many other services from colocation facility.
Attack on Anonymous Speech
20 Apr 2012
>> On Wednesday, April 18, at approximately 16:00 Eastern Time, U.S. Federal authorities removed a server from a colocation facility shared by Riseup Networks and May First/People Link in New York City. The seized server was operated by the European Counter Network ("ECN"), the oldest independent internet service provider in Europe, who, among many other things, provided an anonymous remailer service, Mixmaster, that was the target of an FBI investigation into the bomb threats against the University of Pittsburgh
>> ...
(A small digression, if I may: the modern city of Pittsburgh was a wilderness sparsely populated by persons of European origin during the Washington administration. In 1791, after the Treasury Secretary, Alexander Hamilton, imposed the first major federal tax, on whisky sales, farmers in the Pittsburgh area revolted in the so-called "Whiskey Rebellion", because they relied on local sales of whisky for cash. Washington himself led an army of regulars against the rebellious Americans. Owing to a painful back injury suffered in a fall from a horse some years previously, he soon turned over command to Hamilton, who was also a U.S. Army General. The army attacked some farmhouses and eventually arrested most of the rebel leaders, as well as moderates who were trying to make peace. For some time it appeared likely that Hamilton would carry out field executions, but Washington intervened and pardoned most of the rebels. As this story shows, credible threats to American citizens from the U.S. federal government, and from the U.S. military, are hardly a novel phenomenon. And Hamilton was no saint.)
Dozens of servers in other countries (not associated with Riseup) were seized using the same warrant:
FBI seizes activists' anonymous remailer server in bomb threat investigation
Remailer was in chain of U. of Pittsburgh threats, but not the source, say activist owners.
Sean Gallagher
20 Apr 2012
> Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigations seized a server belonging to an Italian Internet service provider on Thursday as part of an investigation into a series of anonymous bomb threats sent to the University of Pittsburgh. But the groups associated with the operation of the server are calling the seizure an attack on Internet anonymity.
It is notable that the University of Pittsburgh continued to receive threats after this notorious worldwide raid, proving that FBI sees no ethical violation in harming innocent civilians all over the world when its absurdly vaunted reputation is endangered. The servers were eventually returned but of course they could not be used again.
Riseup itself has come under direct attack from various governments, including both governments allied with and hostile to the US government.
A well known example: during street protests against the "Vomit Law" in Spain, a misguided Spanish judge declared Riseup a "terrorist organization" under the broadly written "counter-terrorism" law which had just been enacted in Spain (the "Vomit Law" itself, the very law being protested). In that case, the US DOJ apparently decided that Riseup did not fit the (also very broad) definition of a "terrorist group" under US law.
Less well known examples include apparently stated-sponsored phishing campaigns tied to intelligence agencies maintained by UK and RU, among others.
The widely reported leak of the internal emails of the notorious Italian espionage-as-a-service company Hacking Team showed that someone using an account tied to the Czech national police had ordered up a HT malware tailored for attacking the Riseup mail server. It was not clear from those emails whether he intended to attack all Riseup users, or just one specific user, much less the reason why. It was however clear that he, like many others who hire HT, was pretty clueless about the dangerous tools they wanted to use.
MayFirst also continues to come under nasty attack from various sources. An excellent story which just appeared in ArsTechnica:
The DDoS vigilantes trying to silence Black Lives Matter
The Web lets anyone be a publisher—or a vigilante.
Corin Faife
14 Dec 2016
>>> "Through our e-mails and our social media accounts we get death threats all the time," said Janisha Gabriel. "For anyone who's involved in this type of work, you know that you take certain risks." These aren't the words of a politician or a prison guard but of a Web designer. Gabriel owns Haki Creatives, a design firm that specializes in building websites for social activist groups like Black Lives Matter (BLM)—and for that work strangers want to kill her.
>>> ...
>>> Since its creation, pushback against BLM has been strong in both the physical and digital world. The BLM website was taken down a number of times by DDoS attacks, which its original hosting provider struggled to deal with. Searching for a provider that could handle a high-risk client, BLM site admins discovered MayFirst, a radical tech collective that specializes in supporting social justice causes such as the pro-Palestinian BDS movement, which has similarly been a target for cyberattacks.
>>> MayFirst refers many high-profile clients to eQualit.ie, a Canadian not-for-profit organization that gives digital support to civil society and human rights groups; the group's Deflect service currently provides distributed denial of service (DDoS) protection to the Black Lives Matter site. In a report published today, eQualit.ie has analyzed six months' worth of attempted attacks on BLM, including a complete timeline, attack vectors, and their effectiveness, providing a glimpse behind the curtain at what it takes to keep such a site running.
A salient point about these attacks is that social media sites catering to US police officers (yes, they exist; some are even taxpayer funded!) are chock full of ugly (and badly misinformed) opinions about BLM, raising the possibility that the attackers may include (off duty?) cops or misguided supporters of the rabid Sheriff of Milwaukee County, David Clarke. Clarke has stated in numerous editorials that he believes that the USA is in a state of "civil war" (his words) between BLM and the government. Anyone who has compared recent video footage from Aleppo and Milwaukee will probably be disposed to dismiss Clarke as a lunatic, but he enjoys a large following among armed hotheads, which makes him a very dangerous in American politics. And he is apparently being considered for some high level post in the incoming Trump administration.
How should activists react to such threats? With fearful retreat? Certainly not! We must rather redouble our efforts to oppose everywhere the encroaching tide of Fascism which has spread to such formerly democratic nations as the USA and Spain.
Remember, even after Hitler became Chancellor in Germany, if more ordinary citizens had protested against his illegal actions targeting political dissidents, Gypsies, gays, disabled persons (the first mass killings exterminated institutionalized severely mentally disabled patients who were killed in the very asylums where they had been incarcerated), and Jews, Catholics, and other ethnic/religious groups, the Holocaust might never have happened. Even then, after so many disasters for civil liberties had already occurred, it might have been prevented if only more people had acted with courage and resolution.
For invaluable insight into how state sponsored genocides develop, please see:
The Ten Stages of Genocide
Gregory H. Stanton
>>>> Classification Symbolization Discrimination Dehumanization Organization
>>>> Polarization Preparation Persecution Extermination Denial
@ Coren Faife (author of the ArsTechnica story): please obtain Tor Messenger and an account at Calyx Institute and please publish a fingerprint for authentication.
Hi, > but the vpn are based
> but the vpn are based in the usa : dangerous for non-residents.
<> you wrote a lot but nothing about in connection with the reference : are you a bit out of the reality ?
# Riseup is a nice solution and maybe almost perfect running on its own closed (between closed friend i mean) platform but the new vpn have 2 vpn based exclusively in the usa so as soon as you enter in you are under the usa laws.
> "Remember, ... resolution."
<> you do not know what you are speaking about and there are no connections with the reference * but the vpn are based in the usa : dangerous for non-residents.*
> "For ...Denial"
<> same answer see above
# it must be a female comment from the white house after the defeat.
thx for reading & publishing my comment.
> Riseup is a nice solution
> Riseup is a nice solution and maybe almost perfect running on its own closed (between closed friend i mean) platform but the new vpn have 2 vpn based exclusively in the usa so as soon as you enter in you are under the usa laws.
Yes, but if you and your friends all use gpg, carefully encrypted/decrypted offline, not even Riseup admins can read the contents. If you and all your friends use Riseup, your emails may never even leave the Riseup network, so to perform "traffic analysis" (for example by constructing a graph whose nodes are riseup user accounts, with an edge between each pair of users who have emailed each other), an adversary would have to compromise the Riseup network. Yes, the USG could put pressure on Riseup admins to simply let them snoop on the metadata, but even then not even NSA (probably) could read the contents.
It's not perfect but it's something.
Something which is effective enough to deeply worry the "security authorities" in various nations, it seems, all of whom want to keep a close eye on their own dissidents. But it seems you already know that!
By the way, Riseup does not discourage anyone from forming their own collective in some country they think is safer than the USA. Quite the contrary.
> thx for reading
Sorry if I misunderstood.
bitmask is all over the world
bitmask is all over the world
> And all is under survey ,
> And all is under survey , when i am typing even the admin could censor & replace my words by his own sentences.
Are you talking about Riseup webmail or this blog?
If the former, you can end to end encryption and then no webmail admin can alter your words. Not that I have any reason to think Riseup would ever dream of doing such a thing, or even admins at commercial providers. In most countries, that would be illegal.
Spooks on the other hand operate outside the law in every country and certainly would be happy to alter words if they have intruded into your network.
> In most countries, that
> In most countries, that would be illegal.
That is an important information : thank you very much.
The last update makes Tor
The last update makes Tor Browser crash at upstart.
I suggest you say that on
I suggest you say that on the right blog post then -- nobody is going to see it here.
Nobody except Roger ;)
Nobody except Roger ;)


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|Feb 7th, 2012 02:04 AM
|Ex Leper
|I just ordered a box For $11.49. From what I read it's a steal.
|Oct 3rd, 2010 02:30 PM
|Oct 2nd, 2010 08:10 AM
|these are just awesome fuggin cards man!
|Nov 15th, 2009 06:15 PM
|I HAD these!! But you forgot to post the class pictures at the end of the series.
|Feb 20th, 2009 07:01 PM
Akktri is obsessing over awesome body parts.
GO ask Alice!
|Feb 20th, 2009 03:17 PM
|A lot of those numbers are either too many digits, or not enough, especially the Stallone number.
|Feb 20th, 2009 02:59 PM
|Is there going to be a Grossville High minimock? Grossville High is like Toxic High combined with Garbage Pail Kids.
|Jul 12th, 2008 08:22 AM
On card 9 it clearly says "Manson teaches gym."
So Charles Manson was a gym teacher before he went batcrap insane? Makes sense to me.
|May 12th, 2008 06:11 PM
|Count Mek
|May 7th, 2008 02:23 AM
|With the magical powers of eBay, you can!
|May 6th, 2008 08:50 PM
|If only I could travel back to 1980 something to tell him :/
|May 6th, 2008 08:02 PM
|It's fine to put classic stickers like that on stuff... the only thing is, if you're going to stick 'em on something, make sure it's something you're not gonna get rid of after 6 months or so like school books. I suggest using them to improve the look of your computer, your musical instrument of choice, your furniture and even your body because you're likely to hold onto all of those things for a lot longer than your average school book.
|May 6th, 2008 07:49 PM
|I miss my Wacky Packy collection. I gave it to my little brother and he plastered them all over his school books. He feels bad to this day, but I flinched once when I saw his books and learned not to care about things you give to people.
|May 6th, 2008 01:11 AM
"Editor: Mark Newgarden. Sr. Writers: Drew Friedman, John Mariano, Mark Newgarden. Character design and pencils: Drew Friedman. Painters: Tom Bunk, Pat Pigott, John Pound, Walter Velez, Xno. Additional writers: Jordon Bockhanis, Jay Lynch, Russ Reiley, Beth Pearson."
So yeah, it does look like at least one of the Friedman brothers worked on it Max. Good eye! John Pound, who is probably the most famous artist from the Garbage Pail Kids, also worked on it which might explain how there were several little nods to the GPK series in the Toxic High set.
|May 5th, 2008 07:13 PM
|Apr 30th, 2008 09:00 AM
|i must admit, those cafateria ladys do have that "just another day at work" look about them, hell, that looked better than whats on offer in our canteen
|Apr 29th, 2008 06:53 PM
And who one earth has that consistancy of vomit? Really, it's quite scary.
Thinking about it, considering the menu, it probably makes sense...
|Apr 29th, 2008 05:30 PM
|What's with the casual vomiting? You'd think they would have look of disgust or pain or SOMETHING on their face, but these people just projectile vomit like it's nothing.
|Apr 29th, 2008 03:44 PM
|These are fucking incredible. Awesome.
|Apr 29th, 2008 02:18 PM
|Not only was a head of cabbage principal, it was principal for eight years.
|Apr 29th, 2008 11:37 AM
|These cards were too awesome for your scanner to handle.
|Apr 29th, 2008 10:56 AM
|Colonel Flagg
|An heroic effort, -Rog-, thanks. Eggs! (poached)
|Apr 29th, 2008 10:30 AM
|According to card 13 the zip code for Toxictown puts them NJ...seems about right.
|Apr 29th, 2008 09:53 AM
|DUDE!!! i like these cards, i wish i had the collection, all i have are Garbage Pail Kids and the early 90's complete Wacky Packages collection
|Apr 29th, 2008 08:18 AM
|Mystik Tomato
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Currently at MoMA: John Szarkowski Photographs
It's rather odd, but John Szarkowski is a photographer.
Odd, because the 30-year Director of the Photography Department at the Museum of Modern Art is one of the most influential curators in photography's history, and one of the best writers ever to turn his hand to the subject.
As an artist, the more-or-less 80-year-old Szarkowski jokes, he's had an early period and a late period, and he intends to get started on his middle period soon.
It should go without saying that he has a good eye. Well, he does. And he's been resolutely shooting film with large cameras in the 15 years since he retired—his late period—and, I would suspect, having the prints made under his direction by the best custom printers. (I doubt he does his own printing.)
It should also go without saying that he knows how to put together a show. Well, he does. So you take a good eye, big negs, expert printing, in beautiful frames, ordered intelligently on gallery walls...I just can't see how any photographer wouldn't enjoy seeing this. Although not in the essential category, it's definitely the kind of show you really have to see firsthand to appreciate. I saw it in Milwaukee when it visited the Calatrava addition, and was even a little surprised by how eye-pleasing it was. John Szarkowski, photographer—who knew?
What: John Szarkowski, Photographs
When: February 1st to May 15th, 2006.
Where: Third floor photography galleries, The Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53rd St., New York, NY.
There's even a nice book that shows off the pictures with reasonable fidelity.
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Rough Launch for iPhone 3G
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Source: Reuters
The launch of the iPhone 3G has not gone smoothly. Existing iPhone customers have had difficulty downloading the new version of iTunes and the new 2.0 firmware. Meanwhile, some of the new customers for the iPhone 3G have had to deal with activation problems and insufficient inventory.
In his constant quest of oneupsmanship, CEO Steve Jobs promised a 22-nation rollout on July 11. That overreach may have been part of the problem. Sites like Engadget, Gizmodo and MacRumors reported that stores were sold out by mid-day, and people attempting to download the new software and firmware suffered repeated timeouts.
Ken Levy, a programmer in the Seattle area, relayed his experience early Friday morning in an e-mail to InternetNews.com:
"So about 35 minutes ago, the iPhone 2.0 [firmware] was finally available. About halfway through, the process backed out and did a firmware restore. It then said 'factory default' settings complete, and my iPhone is deactivated. I don't know if I lost all my data and settings, but it appears I may have. Now when I load iTunes, it says it cannot connect to the servers."
Later in the day, Levy had better news. He was able to connect to the servers, the download continued, the 2.0 firmware was installed and he had no lost any of his data. "I don't think it will be a matter of people losing anything, they just have to be patient. It's just one of those things that happens when you launch a new phone," he said.
Analyst Rob Enderle of The Enderle Group said Apple was foolish to try such a huge launch, especially since the initial iPhone launch last year had its own problems with customer overload bogging down the network. "For a vendor to do this mistake twice is stupid," he told InternetNews.com. "They should have staggered this launch. There's no advantage to a global launch other than bragging rights."
Levy also felt the company should have staggered the launch. "I think they would have frustrated customers a lot less if they had to wait 24 or 48 hours rather than go through this," he said. "If they would have distributed the update only to new people and 1.0 [iPhone customers] waited, it's possible all the new customers would have had a better experience."
Calls to Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) for comment were not returned by press time.
iPhones being bricked
Beyond just the slowness of the launch, Enderle postulated that the numerous reports of old iPhones being bricked by failed firmware updates may be endemic of a bigger problem. Just as installing a new operating system on an old PC is often a recipe for disaster, he thinks it might be time to apply that caution to the smart phone market.
"Traditionally, what we've done is if someone wants the new features, customers get a new phone. As we turn these phones more and more into laptop computers, I really wonder if we shouldn't rethink how we apply new operating systems on the phone," he said.
Perhaps customers could go to the store and have the process of backup and installation done by techs there, who know what they are doing and have the tools necessary for the job, Enderle suggested. It might be smarter than letting someone download an update and install it, especially if they are traveling for business and their cell phone is bricked by a bad update. "The underlying process as it currently exists seems way too risky for me," said Enderle.


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Job Postings
In this section, one can access job postings for all academic employment in the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Toronto. This includes all work for Teaching Assistants (TAs), course instructors, as well as Faculty and Lecturer positions.
There are three categories of academic employees. The first two are represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employers (CUPE). They are divided into two bargaining units, as below. The third group are those represented by the University of Toronto Faculty Association (UTFA). Each employee belongs to only one catagory, depending upon their status at the university:
CUPE 3902 Unit 1
This group includes graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and undergraduates. Job opportunties include TA work (grader or tutorial lead) and course instructorships.
CUPE 3902 Unit 3
This group encompasses those who are otherwise "outside" the university, i.e. not studying at the university. Job opportunities consist primarily of course instructorships.
This is the University of Toronto Faculty Association (which is not a union). Employees hired under this rubric include Faculty members, Lecturers (full and part-time), as well as CLTAs (Contractually Limited Term Appointments).
Please click on the relevant link, depending upon your status, to see relevant job information.


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Luso Smithtown's meat show: first bites
The amount of protein and the level of cholesterol in Smithtown have just spiked.
Newcomer Luso is packed with diners reveling in the assortment of grilled meats that's the churrascaria's specialty. Waiters arrive brandishing skewers of them, and you choose what you want.
But, while the all-you-can-eat carnivore's carnival offers quantity, sometimes chewing the red meat is like nibbling on a belt. Stick with items such as turkey wrapped with bacon, sausage, and top sirloin rather than skirt steak or cubes of beef. The cost: $33.95 per person.
The restaurant also offers barbecued chicken and grilled seafood as a la carte courses. And grilled chorizo sausage with pickled vegetables is a very good appetizer.
Luso, 101 E. Main St., Smithtown; 631-406-6820.


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Makeup Looks For Glasses
The Makeup Look That's Eyeglasses-Approved
In How to Marry a Millionaire, Marilyn Monroe proclaimed that "men don't make passes at girls who wear glasses." But if Marilyn could have seen Rashida Jones last night, she might have changed her tune. The actress stepped out in thick Buddy Holly-esque glasses, pairing her smart style with makeup that didn't get lost behind her frames. The trick to nailing the eyewear and makeup look is seriously simple: keep your eye makeup clean and draw attention to your lips.
Follow Rashida's lead by opting for a neutral, shimmery shadow, like Bobbi Brown Metallic Long-Wear Shadow ($24), to draw light to your eyes. Then focus your eyeliner on the outer corners, keeping the inner corners clear of pigment to prevent eyes from appearing closed in. Curl your lashes and add two coats of mascara for added drama. Finish with a swipe of a bright lipstick color, like Revlon Super Lustrous Lipstick in Smoked Peach ($8). Double takes guaranteed.


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ROCK FALLS – Four prospective gubernatorial candidates made appearances Friday evening at the Whiteside County Republican Lincoln Day Dinner, and three of them spoke.
There was a consensus on one item: they want to see a Republican governor in Illinois.
While none of them have officially announced their intentions, state Sens. Kirk Dillard, R-Hinsdale, and Bill Brady, R-Bloomington, who squared off in the last Republican primary, are set to run against each other again.
That primary could include state Treasurer Dan Rutherford and venture capitalist Bruce Rauner, who were also in attendance at Friday's dinner at the Days Inn in Rock Falls.
Rauner spoke about bringing a results-oriented attitude to the office of governor and fighting to keep and recruit large employers.
Brady, who bested Dillard in the 2010 primary, but not Pat Quinn for the governor's seat, said he wanted to finish the job he started, citing advice he received from former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush. Brady lost to Quinn by about 30,000 votes.
"He told me he wouldn't have won the second time, if he didn't lose the first," Brady said. "The attack ads stick more when you are not that well known, and that influences the undecided voters."
Brady added he had the business experience to make the most of Illinois' resources.
Dillard, who lost to Brady in the primary by only 193 votes, said he had the chops to win a general election – having both suburban and downstate ties – and the ability to work with what will likely be a Democratic majority in the General Assembly.
"When I worked as Gov. Jim Edgar's chief of staff, we turned a $1 billion deficit into a $1.5 billion surplus, all without an income tax increase," Dillard said.
Not only were the gubernatorial candidates featured, but Rachel Crandall was named Whiteside County Republican of the Year, and Doug Crandall was given the Whiteside County Republican Volunteer of the Year award.
Rachel was given the award for organizing the Whiteside County Republican Women's group, while Doug was honored for the countless hours of volunteering he gave the party, county chairwoman Jerri Robinson said.
Sen. Tim Bivins, R-Dixon, who pointed out he is one of only 19 Republicans in the 59-seat Senate, said Republicans have to continue working hard to make an impact, even though they are in the minority.


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A grandfather of a former U.S. Naval Academy football player said Friday that his grandson is one of the three midshipmen charged in the sexual assault of a female student but that the young man told him he had nothing to do with the allegations.
The midshipman, Tra'ves Bush, declined to comment when reached on his cellphone Friday by The Associated Press.
"I'm not speaking on anything regarding that situation," he said.
His grandfather, Jackson Bush, said in a telephone interview from Johnston, S.C., that Tra'ves Bush had an appointment with an attorney Friday. He said his grandson had a previous relationship with the woman making the accusations. But he said his grandson told him he doesn't know anything about the assault she says took place at off-campus house in Annapolis in April 2012.
"He knew the girl, but he didn't know that anything like that had taken place," Jackson Bush said, referring to the allegations.
Two people with direct knowledge of the case identified the other two midshipmen as Josh Tate and Eric Graham. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they believe it is the Naval Academy's place to give the names, which it hasn't done yet. Relatives of the other two students could not immediately be reached for comment.
The Capital of Annapolis first reported the same names.
Academy spokesman John Schofield said names of military personnel are not made public until cases have advanced to a court-martial. Earlier this week, the academy announced that the case will go to Article 32 hearings, which are held to determine if there is evidence to proceed to a court-martial.
The midshipmen have been charged with two violations of the Uniform Code of Military Justice. One charge involves rape, sexual assault or other sexual misconduct. The other is for making a false official statement.
The woman, through her attorney, said she woke up with bruises after a night of heavy drinking and later learned from friends and social media that three football players she considered friends were claiming to have had sex with her while she was intoxicated and blacked out.
Tate was listed as a junior outside linebacker whose hometown was Nashville, Tenn., according to the 2013 roster information on navysports.com. Graham and Bush weren't on the current list, but Graham was listed on the 2012 roster as a senior cornerback from Eight Mile, Ala. Bush was listed on that roster as a senior safety from Johnston, S.C., and that he was one of Navy's best defensive players the previous season.
According to previous information released, two of the students were football players this past season, but they are not on the team anymore. Another is still on the team, but he has been suspended pending the outcome of the case.
Jackson Bush said his grandson had been scheduled to graduate this year, but his graduation was put on hold until the case is resolved.
The case brought renewed attention to how the nation's military academies handle reports of sexual assaults. The service academies have struggled for years with sexual assault and harassment allegations, and a string of sexual assault cases has recently drawn attention in Congress and at the Pentagon and The White House. Many of the assault cases involve alcohol.
On Monday, a court-martial in an unrelated allegation of abusive sexual contact case from the academy is scheduled for next week. Midshipman Patrick Slack is charged with abusive sexual contact, burglary and unlawful entry. William Ferris, Slack's attorney, said his client is accused of touching a female student's breast. The court-martial is scheduled to begin Wednesday.
Other Navy football players have faced assault allegations in the past.
In 2006, Lamar Owens Jr., the team's starting quarterback, was acquitted of rape but found guilty of lesser charges in a military court. He was expelled from the school. Another one-time member of the team, Kenny Ray Morrison, was convicted in 2007 of sexually assaulting a female classmate at a Washington hotel. He was sentenced to two years in the Navy brig.
A grandfather of a former U.S. Naval Academy football player said Friday that his grandson is one of the three midshipmen charged in the sexual assault of a female student but that the young man told him he had nothing to do with the allegations.


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Black Pro-Life Groups to Protest NAACP Image Awards
A group of African-American pro-life activists and organizations are planning to protest the 44th Annual NAACP Image Awards in California.
Groups and individuals including Life Education And Resource Network (LEARN), Black Autonomy Network Community Organization (BANCO), Dr. Alveda King, and others will protest the televised event on Friday. The coalition argues that the NAACP supports abortion, which is the leading cause of death in the African-American community.
Dr. Johnny Hunter, national director of LEARN, said in a statement that the NAACP's strong ties to Planned Parenthood have made it an organization harmful to the black community. "Racist elitists no longer need the Ku Klux Klan to control blacks; they have Planned Parenthood. And Planned Parenthood has the NAACP on a leash," said Hunter. "The NAACP must quit endorsing destructive and unfruitful behavior."
The Rev. Edward Pinkney, president of BANCO, told The Christian Post that he believed the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People "is out touch with the black community." "The NAACP is no longer a civil rights organization due to the failure of the NAACP organization to represent the best interest of the community," said Pinkney.
"The NAACP supports abortion and the pharmaceutical company that make Depo Provera all for money. The NAACP has betrayed the black community."
Depo Provera, the drug that Pinkney was referring to, is a birth control shot that is supposed to prevent pregnancy for up to 14 weeks. The shot is distributed by Pfizer, which sends contributions to the NAACP. On its website, BANCO has referred to the shot as being dangerous and "eugenic" in nature and condemns the NAACP for its alleged complacency in the matter.
According to WebMD, while Depo Provera does have several risks including depression, weight gain, and loss of bone density, it is not an inherently fatal or deadly birth control method.
For years, many black conservative writers have denounced the pro-choice leanings of the NAACP. While the national organization does have an official position on the abortion debate, over the years it has had prominent members support the pro-choice side. For example, in 2004 then NAACP Board Chair Julian Bond remarked, "This is an issue of equal rights, and we are pleased to join those insisting on a woman's right to control her own body."
Meant to focus on exemplary entertainment by, for, and/or germane to minority communities, the 44th annual 2013 NAACP Image Awards will be hosted by comedian and actor Steve Harvey.
The NAACP did not return comment to The Christian Post by press time.


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The Weinstein Company will distribute Nicole Kidman starrer Grace Of Monaco in limited release in the US on Dec 27, positioning the film for an awards season play.
The company on Monday [25] confirmed reports it had acquired US rights to the Grace Kelly biopic directed by Olivier Dahan.
Tim Roth plays the protagonist's husband Prince Rainier of Monaco and the cast includes Milo Ventimiglia, Frank Langella, Parker Posey, Paz Vega and Derek Jacobi. Arash Amel wrote the screenplay.
Pierre-Ange Le Pogam of Stone Angels produced with YRF Entertainment's Amel and Uday Chopra.
Le Pogam closed the deal with TWC COO David Glasser and Michal Steinberg in Los Angeles.